This past Friday night (November 30), Metal Blade Records celebrated its 30th anniversary with a show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, CA. Hosted by That Metal Show’s Eddie Trunk and Don Jamieson, the event featured performances by Armored Saint, Sacred Reich and Gypsy Hawk. And as an added bonus, Armored Saint performed [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Before the phrase “metal comedian” actually meant anything, Brian Posehn was one. Signing to Relapse instead of a traditional comedy label, doing routines on how yelling “Slayer” during anything makes it metal, and speaking from the perspective of the 40-something, pot-smoking semi-dorky metalhead that he is, he’s gained a large metal following. The occasional songs [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012
As you probably know by now, Anthrax were forced to perform this past weekend without guitarist Scott Ian and drummer Charlie Benante. While Ian has since returned to the stage, Gene Hoglan is still filling in on drums while Benante is with his terminally ill mother. And now it turns out that bassist Frank Bello [...]
Friday, December 9, 2011
The second night of Metallica’s 30th Anniversary shows at the Filmore in San Francisco this past Wednesday night (December 7) was filled with some great surprises, including a set with Mercyful Fate (great to see King Diamond back in good health) and another unreleased song. But one of the standout moments of the night also came from [...]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
During the second night of their intimate 30th Anniversary shows at the Filmore in San Francisco (December 7), Metallica performed yet another song that was recorded during the Death Magnetic sessions but never released. And just like with “Hate Train,” the song performed during the first night, a rough mix version of the song called “Just A Bullet [...]
Friday, September 23, 2011
While Anthrax have been going full force with Joey Belladonna, former Anthrax singer John Bush has been keeping busy with his original group Armored Saint. However, despite releasing La Raza (their first album since 2000’s Revalation) last year, the reactivated LA metal group have done very little touring. In fact, it’s actually been two decades [...]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Spotify has been gaining a strong following in the U.S. since its stateside debut back in July. Now, though, Century Media Records isn’t the only metal label not showing the streaming service any love. This past week, Metal Blade Records removed the remainder of their titles from Spotify. The label had started this process in [...]
Monday, August 2, 2010
A new video for Armored Saint’s “Left Hook From Right Field” has been posted online. Tweet
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week saw a good amount of metal debuts. Three of them in fact came from Metal Blade Records. However, it was everyone’s favorite “not quite metal” band that had the highest debut this week. [...]
Thursday, April 15, 2010
By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week as well as what’s getting played at metal radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college a and commercial stations that have metal shows, as well as SiriusXM, [...]
Megadeth has added two dates in New York City to Gigantour this summer, bringing the touring festival to the Hammerstein Ballroom on August 6 and 7.
As They Burn has premiered a new video of them performing the song “Medicine 2.0″.
Battlecross has premiered a new song called “Flesh & Bone” with Metal Sucks. The song appears on the band’s new album, War Of Will, due out on July 9 via Metal Blade Records.
letlive. are streaming their new album, and first for Epitaph, The Blackest Beauty. The album is set to be released on July 9th, but you can check it out in full here.
Chimaira has announced dates for a U.S. headlining tour in support of it’s forthcoming album, Crown Of Phantoms. Support on the trek will come from Threat Signal, The Browning and Dark Sermon.
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